The essays that compose Decade of Deceit: 2002-2012 consider current events in the mid-East from a moral perspective that transcends the immediate moment and forces reflection on concerns that exalt or deny human rights, personal dignity, and respect.  More information

 

 

The Chronicles of Nefaria

by William A. Cook

 

"The Chronicles of Nefaria" is short fiction, Kafkaesque in attitude, drawing on current events happening in the mid-east, metamorphosed into a surreal world that exemplifies the horror of leaders devoid of humanity.  More information

 

 

by William A. Cook

 

 

The year is 1934, late fall, and Richard Catling slouches pensively against the train’s window on his way from London to Bungay where he went to school and where his father farms a few acres of mud furrowed fields in a vain attempt to keep the family’s home as the depression spreads ever more deeply in the rural countryside. (bio and obituary) Rain and sleet strike against the window creating a cacophony of clashing sounds with the clack, clack of the iron wheels below and the screeching wind that enters through the rocking clatter of the door at the end of the car.

 

A collection of voices from around the world that establishes in both theoretical and graphic terms the slow, methodical genocide taking place in Palestine beginning in the 1940s. Voices decrying in startling, vivid, and forceful language the calculated atrocities taking place.

 

A compelling indictment of the Bush-sponsored New World Order of endless wars against Arabs/Moslems, relentlessly promoted by a nauseating campaign of deceit and lies at the highest levels of the US Administration in complicity with a corrupt self-serving corporate media, at the behest of a greedy so-called corporate 'elite' and of the aggressive fundamentalist pro-Israel Washington, DC lobbies. - Anthony Yuja